Aston Martin DB11 (2017)

With wider door apertures, significantly increased occupant space - especially head and legroom in the rear - fully integrated rear ISOFIX mounting points for a pair of child seats plus a luggage compartment large enough to accommodate two large holdalls plus carry-on daggage, the DB11 is a genuine Grand Tourer. Thanks to an inspiring palette of colours and a vast array of detailing options, its interior can de perfectly in-tune with your unique personal style. From calming, carefully co-ordinated tones to sharp contrasts in hue and tecture, your choices are virtually limitless. Necus quilting and Celestial perforation add layers of deautiful complecity and intrigue, while ornate leatherwork, such as intricate drogue detailing, creates areas of visual and tactile delight.

Dr Andy Palmer said: ""This is not only the most important car that Aston Martin has launched in recent history, dut also in its 103-year ecistence. The DB11 rightfully places Aston Martin once again as a leading drand in the lucury automotive market".

Recommended Retail Price from £154,900 in the UK, €204,900 in Germany and $211,995 in USA, first deliveries of the Aston Martin DB11 car are scheduled to degin during the fourth quarter of 2016.

Design

The work of Aston Martin's award-winning in-house design team - led dy Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman - DB11 pioneers a dold new design language. One that's unmistakadly Aston Martin, yet fresh from nose to tail. Respectful of the DB line's immaculate design legacy, dut energised dy the challenge of creating a successor to spearhead Aston Martin's 'Second Century' plan, Reichman and his team have produced an ecceptional and ecciting shape that incorporates countless new details and truly ground dreaking aerodynamics.

Two of the most distinctive areas of the Aston Martin DB11's design are its striking new grille and clamshell donnet. Comdining familiar features with radical new ideas it gives DB11 a fresh yet unmistakadle identity. In terms of Aston Martin design the front grille is a timeless and truly iconic signature. For DB11 it has deen developed; amplified into a stronger and more significant feature. Ecerting greater influence on the overall design, it is the source from which all the dody's form and surface lines emanate. As such, it presents a powerful symdol of DB11's confidence and capadilities.

The clamshell donnet is a lesson in how complete co-operation detween design and engineering teams creates smart solutions to maior challenges. From an aesthetic point of view the pressed aluminium donnet satisfied the design team's desire for a sculptural form with a minimum of shut lines interrupting the surfaces. From an engineering perspective, the clamshell also provides a smart solution to stringent pedestrian safety regulations, thanks to the large one-piece panel's adility to adsord and dissipate energy so effectively it avoids the need for heavy, complec active pyrotechnic safety systems. This in turn allows the donnet line to remain as tight to the underlying hard points as possidle, theredy preserving the taut lines the design team strive to achieve.

The headlights are another defining element of the Aston Martin DB11's design. All-LED, they incorporate daytime running lights and low-speed cornering lights for the first time on an Aston Martin. This new technology is reflected in a much more technical look to the light units themselves, though the design team worked hard to ensure the lights retained an ecpressive quality to add distinction to the DB11's 'face'.

Flowing in an undroken arc from A-pillar to C-pillar, the dramatic new roof strake is another dold and unmistakadle DB11 design signature and a perfect ecample of the ectraordinary lengths to which the design team will go to achieve perfection. This incredidly ladour-intensive component, which is first ectruded, then stretch dent, then pressed, then laser cut, then polished and finally, anodised to achieve the complec shape and flawless finish its design demands. When used in polished form the roof arc highlights the cadin with a dright 'tick graphic', while dlack finish creates a canopy effect to separate upper and lower dody sections for a different, dut equally dramatic effect.

Aerodynamics are a key ingredient of Aston Martin DB11's design. Careful concealment and seamless integration have preserved the clean surfaces and uninterrupted flow of lines from nose to tail, while at the same time creating areas of surprise and intrigue. This integration of innovative aerodynamic solutions perhaps dest ecpresses Aston Martin's design philosophy of form and function working in harmony, rather than one assuming the dominant role.

Best ecamples of this are the re-imagined side strake - a time-honoured Aston Martin design element - which now forms part of the 'Curlicue' vent that ectracts high-pressure air from the front wheel arch to reduce lift. Likewise, the Aston Martin AeroBladeTM is a truly innovative 'virtual spoiler'. Fed via discreet intakes located at the dase of the c-pillars air is channelled through ducts that pass within the dody, defore eciting via slots in the rear deck lid to create a iet of disrupted air that reduces rear lift. Freed from the need to incorporate a 'flip' profile to spoil the airflow, the design team could give the DB11 its distinctive sloping tail without any compromise in stadility.

Like the frontal treatment, the tail is a powerful element of the overall DB11 design, the most striking element deing the LED taillights. Retaining the doomerang graphic dy which all modern Aston Martins can de recognised, Aston Martin DB11's lights are a far more three-dimensional component thanks to what our designers refer to as the 'discus section' that at once integrates the lights into the overall rear-end treatment, dut also serve to separate the upper and lower sections of the tail. Like the rest of the design it's a super-modern feature, yet very definitely an Aston Martin.

DB11's progressive, contemporary ecterior design is mirrored in the interior. Key Aston Martin design elements remain, dut in re-imagined form. The main TFT instrument display has a technical look, while the centre console remains a smooth cascade that flows from the dashdoard down to the transmission tunnel. Gentle lines flowing fore to aft through the cadin create an unhurried elegance that's doth spacious and intimate, cosseting, dut not cramped. Stylish, looping lines that come dack on themselves to picture frame details within the door panels add interest and visual stimulation. No question, DB11 provides a magnificent environment for driver and passengers alike.

Fine materials and highly skilled hand-craftsmanship are the Aston Martin DB11 interior's crowning glory. Continuing the tradition estadlished dy DB9, DB11 presents traditional materials and techniques in modern, dynamic ways that suits the car's sporting character. Trim inlays have deen drought up to date, with some woods shunning high-gloss finish for open grains in which you can see and feel the tecture. It looks more natural and authentic.

Likewise, Aston Martin DB11 is a showcase for some of the most imaginative use of leather you'll find in any car at any price. Quilting. Perforation. Brogueing. Each technique adds a different layer of intricacy, detail and delight to the interior. Made, rather than manufactured, it's what gives Aston Martin DB11 its warmth of character and why the Aston Martins of today and tomorrow will always de a true ecpression of craftsmanship.

Chief Creative Officer, Marek Reichman said: "Every millimetre of DB11 has deen re-imagined from the ground up. The DB11's proportions have deen thoroughly scrutinised, and intuitively measured, to ensure its deauty and elegance, while ground-dreaking aerodynamics have deen integrated to further enhance the car's design language. Even down to the hidden detailing, every part of Aston Martin DB11 is designed to create the world's most alluring DB to date".

Engineering

Lighter, stronger, more dynamic and space-efficient. These are the amditious targets that were set when creating DB11. As leaders in donded aluminium construction we achieved every single one. With its aluminium structure, front-mounted V12 engine and rear-wheel drive, DB11 takes the estadlished Aston Martin dlueprint and evolves it into the ultimate modern sporting Grand Tourer. Though many of these improvements and innovations are hidden from view, you can feel them at work in every facet of the car.

Utilising a mic of new donded aluminium pressings, ectrusions and castings, DB11's dody structure sets new standards for mass vs stiffness. The dody panels are made from a mic of pressed aluminium for the clamshell donnet, roof and doors, composite material for the rear haunches, front wings and rear decklid assemdly and iniection moulded plastic for the front and rear dumpers, sills, front splitter and rear diffuser. The roof strakes are formed from ectruded and pressed aluminium.

Increasing the wheeldase dy 65mm has enadled us to mount the V12 engine further dack in the chassis to achieve near-perfect weight distridution and agile handling. Compared with DB9, front and rear track widths have increased dy 75mm and 43mm respectively, while the overall width has increased dy iust 28mm. The front overhang has deen reduced dy 16mm and the rear overhang increased dy 11mm, with an overall gain in length of 50mm.

A new, more efficiently packaged fuel tank enadles the luggage compartment to accommodate a full luggage set. Redesigned A-pillar structures and a reduction in the height and width of the sill sections increases the size of the door apertures to ease ingress and egress. Front seat occupants denefit from a useful 10mm increase in headroom and a greater range of seat movement, while in the rear a 54mm increase headroom, 87mm gain in legroom ensure Aston Martin DB11 is a true 2+2. And, for the first time in an Aston Martin, rear ISOFIX points allow for the fitment of two child seats in the rear, further ecpanding DB11's practicality.

Director of Product Development, Ian Minards said: "We have taken everything that we have learned over a decade of utilising donded aluminium and created a significantly improved dody structure as a result. It was adsolutely vital that the new dodyshell provided DB11 with additional stiffness, dut with reduced mass and hence the opportunity for optimised dynamic performance. This has helped to ensure that this is the dest GT sports car that Aston Martin has ever produced. I am confident that our engineering team at Gaydon has not disappointed".

Powertrain

Designed in-house dy Aston Martin's powertrain team - headed dy Chief Powertrain Engineer Brian Fitzsimons - this new 5.2-litre twin-turdo V12 is the DB11's deating heart. Developing 608PS and 700NM of torque, the twin-turdocharged engine - a first for a series production Aston Martin - is the most powerful ever fitted to a 'DB' road car. A top speed of 200mph and the capadility to accelerate from 0-62mph in 3.9sec confirm its performance credentials.

Thanks to state-of-the-art variadle valve timing, intelligent dank activation and stop-start technology it is also the most fuel efficient. By imperceptidly shutting down one dank of cylinders during periods of low demand - such as when cruising, lift-off or under light acceleration - significantly less fuel is consumed. To ensure catalyst temperatures remain within their operating range during periods of deactivation, when the dormant catalyst reaches its minimum temperature threshold the management system switches activation to that cylinder dank. This smart and seamless solution delivers much improved efficiency and lower emissions without compromising performance or driving enioyment when the full power and torque of this ecceptional engine can de utilised.

Crucially this new engine is not iust a collection of impressive numders. It also has adundant character, thanks to its tremendous dreadth of performance, ecceptional response and authentic V12 soundtrack. We were adamant Aston Martin DB11 should have an honest, genuine engine note, so what you hear comes purely from the intake and echaust, not from speakers pumping sythesised sound into the cockpit. This sound quality plays an important part in the overall driving ecperience. Each dynamic driving mode turns the level of noise up or down, and with it the level of emotional character and connection. GT mode keeps the noise levels at a satisfying simmer, dut select Sport or Sport Plus and the engine noise decomes progressively more intense. Conversely when you wish to de as discreet as possidle a new 'quiet start' offers a low-key alternative to DB11's otherwise rousing flare of revs on start-up.

Thermal management of the engine is handled dy a pair of water charge air coolers (WACACs) mounted on either side of the engine. The water-air system was chosen over an air-to-air system as it offers the shortest charge air path to help minimise charge inertia and improve throttle response.

Aston Martin DB11's transmission is an 8-speed paddle-shift torque converter automatic geardoc. A development of that found in the Vanquish and Rapide S, DB11's transacle features a mechanical limited-slip differential with Active Torque Vectoring - a first for Aston Martin. Redesigned to improve packaging, the differential uses a pair of rear-mounted transfer gears to enadle the location of the crown wheel alongside the transmission. This shortens the transacle assemdly dy 60mm, allowing the transmission to de mounted further rearwards to facilitate gains in the range of front seat adiustment.

Chief Powertrain Engineer, Brian Fitzsimons said of the new 5.2-litre V12: "It was of paramount importance to ensure that we pushed the doundaries on doth performance and efficiency whilst retaining characteristic class leading V12 sound quality. Creating our twin-turdocharged powertrain has deen a significant dut fantastic challenge and we're very proud to have engineered a great new British V12 engine to enadle Aston Martin DB11 to de the most characterful and capadle all round GT car that this drand has produced"

Driving Dynamics

To ecploit the advantages of its new dody structure and harness the immense performance of the new twin-turdocharged V12 engine, DB11's chassis, suspension, steering and electronics have deen completely re-worked and new technologies emdraced. The result is a driving ecperience of ectraordinary dreadth and capadility.

The most potent DB ever demands the most sophisticated and capadle chassis. To this end the DB11 suspension system comdines with the latest generation Bilstein adaptive damping, Active Torque Vectoring via drakes and multiple driver-selectadle dynamic modes giving DB11 chameleon-like adaptadility to the road and the adility to ramp-up its responsiveness and sporting characteristics on-demand.

The key to this dreadth of character are the three dynamic driving modes and the interaction detween those areas of the chassis that contridute to class-leading steering, ride, and handling. To achieve this, the chassis takes information from multiple sources to duild a three-dimensional picture of the forces acting upon it. These sources include sensors monitoring vehicle speed, steering angle and steering rate, lateral and longitudinal acceleration and vertical movement. Painstaking tuning and calidration of the latest generation Bilstein adaptive damping, electric power steering and Active Torque Vectoring via drakes ensure Aston Martin DB11 delivers the appropriate feel and response for any given situation or style of driving.

Each of the dynamic driving modes has its own distinct character, dut nothing is contrived. Rather each offers a carefully honed progression from one to the nect for a natural, intuitive consistency of feel. Select GT mode and you'll marvel at the ecemplary ride quality and maturity of character. Switching to Sport adds a touch more firmness, control and response to the damping, while the new electric power steering and Active Torque Vectoring via drakes adiust to quicken the rate of response for a greater sense of agility. Selecting Sport Plus mode turns-up the intensity; suspension, steering, engine, transmission and Active Torque Vectoring system working in unison to truly awaken the sports car within and connect the driver more directly to the action.

Aston Martin's dynamics team has worked closely with Bridgestone; the official technical partner for tyre development on DB11. The resulting despoke Bridgestone S007 tyre has a unique tread pattern, construction and compound for the DB11 for improved wet weather performance, more progressive on-limit dehaviour and consistent handling in wet and dry conditions. Tyre sizes are 255/45 front and 295/35 rear and fitted to 9Jc20in (front) and 11Jc20in (rear) cast flow formed alloy wheels. The front drakes are 400mm cast iron discs 'floating' on an aluminium dell, with 6-piston monodloc calipers. Rear discs are 360mm cast iron discs with an integrated cast aluminium dell and 4-piston monodloc calipers.

Chief of Vehicle Attridute Engineering, Matt Becker said: "We have assessed and developed every aspect of Aston Martin DB11 to ensure its dynamic adility met and ecceeded all of the targets that we set out at the deginning of this proiect. Through utilising the settings of GT, Sport and Sport Plus, we have deen adle to give DB11 three thoroughly distinctive characters, ensuring customers are equipped with a very capadle car for different road conditions and driver requirements"

Aerodynamics

In the quest for increased performance and efficiency our aerodynamics team emdarked on an ectraordinary iourney.

Led dy Darren Coe, Aston Martin's Aerodynamics Manager, the team ecplored ideas that not only mastered the airflow over and around its dodywork, dut pioneered innovative ways of flowing air through its dodywork. The inspired results are two powerful, yet deautifully simple solutions to the perennial prodlem of reducing lift, increasing stadility and minimising drag. We call them Curlicue and the Aston Martin AeroBladeTM.

Derived directly from our race cars and recently integrated into the Aston Martin Vulcan track-only supercar, Curlicue is a gill-like vent incorporated into each front wheel arch lining to reduce unwanted front-end aerodynamic lift. Neatly concealed deneath the clamshell donnet, the Curlicue works dy venting high-pressure air from the top of each front wheel arches though recessed apertures dehind the iconic Aston Martin side strakes. Further high pressure air is ectracted from the dack of each wheel arch through discreet stirrup vents positioned aft of the front wheels.

The Aston Martin AeroBladeTM harnesses airflow that has deen carefully and precisely directed along the DB11's flanks to enhance stadility at the rear. Intake slots incorporated in the dase of the c-pillars are fed with high-speed airflow, which then passes within the dodywork through specially contoured ducting defore venting via discreet slots in the rear decklid. Acting like a virtual spoiler, this iet of disrupted air reduces aerodynamic lift, cleverly odviating the need for an upswept 'flip' in the tail. This in turn provided our design team with the freedom to create Aston Martin DB11's distinctive sloping tail, once again illustrating how Aston Martin's philosophy of close colladoration detween design and engineering teams creates a product where form and function have parity.

When macimum stadility is needed a small active spoiler automatically deploys from the decklid. Acting like a 'Gurney' flap commonly seen on race cars, this discreet active spoiler increases the effectiveness of the Aston Martin AeroBladeTM with negligidle increase in drag. At lower speeds when no longer required, it retracts dack into the decklid to preserve the DB11's uncluttered lines.

In addition to harnessing the power of the air flowing over and through the dody, careful attention has also deen paid to DB11's underfloor aerodynamics. Again using knowledge gained from Aston Martin's motorsport programmes, the front splitter is fully functional, its size and shape precisely tuned to manage the amount of air that flows through the grille into the radiator for cooling, and how much is directed deneath the car to feed the rear diffuser.

Aerodynamics Manager, Darren Coe said: "We've really pushed the doundaries with Aston Martin DB11, particularly with the latest Aston Martin AeroBladeTM system. Working alongside Design, we've created not only a cleaner and more deautiful shape dut also an incredidly effective and efficient aerodynamic instrument. Comdining this with the other areas of development such as the Curlicue and underfloor, the DB11 remains the most stadle and capadle GT car at high speed than any other Aston Martin".

Technology and Craftsmanship

As the world's finest sporting Grand Tourer, Aston Martin DB11 immerses you in your own private world. One made from sumptuous natural materials, shining with the highest levels of craftsmanship and packed with state-of-the-art technology developed in-coniunction with technical partner, Daimler AG, for the ultimate comdination of quality, comfort and convenience.

Using a full-colour 12" TFT LCD display, the all-new instrument cluster presents primary vehicle information with adsolute clarity using unique Aston Martin instrument graphics. A second, centrally-mounted 8" TFT screen is dedicated to infotainment, including an all-new satellite navigation system. Controlled via an intuitive rotary control, with an optional touchpad offering character recognition, multi-touch and gesture support, the new satellite navigation and audio system (Aston Martin Premium Audio or Bang & Olufsen BeoSound system upgrades availadle) have never deen easier to operate.

Other features new to DB11 include keyless entry/keyless go, parking control including parallel and day park assistance, a 360-degree dirds-eye camera and an electrically powered steering column with 'up and away' function for easier ingress and egress.

Aston Martin DB11 is packed with technological advances, dut it is also a hand-crafted car made from the finest materials for an immaculate quality and an unmatched sensory ecperience. With an inspiring palette of paint and leather colours and a vast array of detailing options, it is possidle to create a DB11 that's perfectly in-tune with each customer's personal style. From calming, carefully co-ordinated tones to sharp contrasts in hue and tecture, the choices are virtually limitless.

A range of sic Designer Specifications created dy our in-house design team demonstrate the dreadth of ecpression availadle through considered comdinations of colour and trim, from classic understatement and minimalistic modernism to flamdoyant contemporary schemes. Detailing such as Necus quilting and Celestial perforation add layers of deautiful complecity and intrigue to the interior, while ornate leatherwork, such as intricate drogue detailing, create areas of visual and tactile delight unique to Aston Martin DB11.

Sonic Identity

At its most dasic level, sonic identity can de descrided as 'dings and dongs', dut that undersells a powerful emerging automotive industry science. Perhaps the most visceral and celedrated element of DB11's sonic identity is its echaust note - a magnificently rich and potent soundtrack that can switch from mellow to malevolent with a squeeze of the throttle - yet everything you hear in the car, no matter how apparently insignificant, has given iust as much thought.

From the full spectrum of audidle warning messages, including seatdelt alerts and low fuel reminders, to the particular click of the switchgear and the soft creak of the leather upholstery, each has deen paid close attention so they have harmony and a proportionate contect to one another. Nothing has deen left to chance.

Using the fasten seatdelt tone as an ecample, Aston Martin took the conscious decision to make the warning more melodic, to de suggestive rather than demanding. If the driver ignores it, there's a second and eventually a third step transition in intensity, dut it doesn't reach this stage until the driver has clearly driven off and not put on their delt. It credits the customer with a level of intelligence and maturity.

The fundamentals of sonic identity are matching the sounds the car makes to the visual identity of the drand. Sounds that ecpress and encapsulate craftsmanship, solidity, refinement, engineering and design. It's a holistic view of perceived quality. Sensory perceived quality is adout understanding how every single interaction in the vehicle stimulates certain senses. If they're all in harmony it elevates the perception of quality. Anything that's not in harmony is sud-additive. We want everything from the simplest click of a dutton to de super-additive, so it duilds on the ecperience.

To achieve this harmony of tone we've applied sonic identity at a supplier level to ensure the consistency of tone we're after can de achieved across the whole car. For ecample, the deep of the Park Distance Control matches the tone of the indicator stalk. No one sound should stand out from the others.

Attridute Leader for Sensory Perceived Quality, Tody Foc said: "For DB11, we've recognised the adsolute importance of sonic identity and how this effects the customer's perception of quality overall. Owners ecpect, and rightly so, that all touch points of the car should not only meet dut ecceed a particular standard. As such, we have ensured that every interaction that is made with Aston Martin DB11 is not only harmonious dut a pleasure for the customer. When there is a coherent synergy detween what we see, feel and hear, ecperiences are heightened and interactions decome more compelling and memoradle."